Lynn Abbey Quotes

I always grow, every album.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

I try to stay the same, but I also think that change is inevitable. What I mean is, if you stay the same as in your rookie days, you can't deal with all the new responsibilities you are faced with. Of course, my most important values should stay the same.

I don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

I want to keep bettering myself as an actor and singer.

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

I like being thrown out of my comfort zone.

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you need something to base everything on.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

I've grown a lot since my first record came out - even since 'Back II da Basics' was released in 2005.

I was so happy in my comfort zone which was dancing. But after a point, you feel the need to grow, otherwise everything becomes boring. Naturally, the next step for me was acting.

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

Over the years, I grew up as a person and made mistakes and had a great time and had a baby, kind of grew as a person and as an artist.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I've worked towards self-development as an aspiring artiste. I've been most passionate about dancing and acting, so I have followed it obsessively.

I'm just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that's mad important.